The Man With No Name, he was either Good, Bad or Ugly depending on your point of view. His filmography is littered with roles of cowboys, cops and army guys. He's killed more men on film than Jason has killed sex-crazed teenagers at Crystal Lake. The only thing missing in his Man's Man film career is boxing, which he still managed to get around to later on in life, albeit as a boxing coach/manager. Eastwood has made a career out of a steely stare that could melt a cactus from fifty feet. He puts the 'mah' in macho. He got his big break in the TV show 'Rawhide' and never looked back. He's so tough they had to invent a new type of Western genre, just for him. They called it 'Spaghetti Western' because he told them to. Really. True story. Probably. He perfected the 'tough, rules-be-damned cop' as Dirty Harry, back when law enforcement was a much simpler, less paperwork type of profession with it's shoot first, ask questions later policy. He showed he could play comedy in his Every Which Way But Loose turn as an orangutan-owning, fist-fighting, easy-going trucker which is still his biggest box-office success (considering inflation). There was a song named after him by Gorillaz, which went to #4 on the UK Singles Chart in 2001-02. He's had at least seven children through five different women and somehow manages to keep them all content and out of the tabloids. He once even became mayor for a time, just to show he could do it. He last created a bit of fuss on the internet during the US Elections of 2012 when he decided to either sabotage or raise Mitt Romney's profile when he addressed the Republican National Convention and then had an eloquent, one-sided conversation with an empty chair. It was weird.
Been there, done that but not too well. Continually financially restrained. Now (and still) lives in Western Canada and talks some hockey and parenting on ogieoglethorpe.blogspot.ca and watching trailers on 2minutemovies.blogspot.ca.
